Using presets

…Most of the applications in the Nik Collection make use of…presets as a starting point for applying adjustments to an image.…In this case, I'm using Silver Efex Pro, but the basic concepts of…those presets apply pretty evenly across…all of the applications within the collection.…You'll find the presets on the left panel.…And in most of the applications, those presets will present a preview…of the actual effect on the actual image that you're currently working on.…

And that is tremendously helpful because as you don't have to try…to guess which particular presets might work well for the current image.…Scrolling through for example, I can see that some of…these presets are just way too dark for this particular photo.…I'll go ahead and scroll through until I find something that I like.…And then I can apply that preset to the image…by simply clicking on it over there on the left panel.…Generally, you'll find that those presets are divided into categories.…Here, for example, I have Classic presets,…as well as Modern presets and Vintage presets.…

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6/6/2014

Learn the basic techniques for working with the affordable, easy-to-use Nik Collection, a group of photo enhancement plugins from Google. This course provides a great way to get up to speed quickly with the full Nik Collection, including workflows for integrating the plugins with your Lightroom and Photoshop workflows. Tim Grey touches on interface options, presets, loupe and histogram behavior, preview options, and other features that are common to all the programs in the collection: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro 2, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro, Viveza, and Dfine.

This course was created by Tim Grey. We are honored to host this training in our library.